Planning Opening Credits- Miss Georgiou

Planning Opening Credits

Opening credits are displayed during the beginning of mostly all media products. They are used to convey the main roles involved in the production process and who was involved. In regards to a film they are usually ordered as followed; the most featured actors within the film, then usually followed with the title and the rest of the production members. For many films the credits are presented over the top of the action, introducing the audience to the film, as well as all of the various people that helped create the film. Sometimes however the credits are simply paired with a static image or blank screen. The editing style of the credits and the font helps to create a foreboding for the audience, as to what type of film they are about to watch and what is likely to happen. Within this post I will be evaluating the techniques featured in the opening credits of the classically acclaimed thriller film, 'Se7en', and discussing the myself and my groups personal progression towards our finalized opening credits. 

Se7en's Opening credits

Firstly, these credits are presented over moving images and shown in a prevalent white text colour. The colours presented throughout the credits are predominately black and white with subtle red suggestions. A black and white theme within thriller films is highly conventional, displaying connotations of two apposing sides i.e. good and evil. The white tones are used to represent innocence, which in turn leaves the viewer immediately questioning how the theme of innocence is applicable to the film, as they become aware that the film is presented through the perspective of two detectives. The black tones also represent mystery created by the seemingly illogical compilation of fleeting images. The theme of mystery is also a foreboding of what is to come within the thriller film. 

The first introduction to the colour red is at 0:12 of this clip; a red line is centered between a drawing of two hands. For this image we can infer that the colour red represents blood, and the ominous character holds the blood of another or life between their hands, hinting at a sinister form of power and control by a foreboding murderous character.
 The font of the credits them self are conveyed in about two font types; the first is a style similar to a type writer and is used for the title and the main roles (such as director). The other font is a type of scribbled, childlike style; the immature childish text is used to enhance a sinister tone from the outset as the idea of a child's presence is disturbing, considering the gruesome imagery being shown. The childlike writing could also promote a troubling naivety and lack of understanding for right and wrong. In turn suggesting the mystery character, implied within the opening credits, is not in the slightest remorseful for their actions, a trait that encapsulates the twisted mind of a psychopath. 
The editing style of these credits are what I would describe as manic. There is no consistent rhythm portrayed for the transition of the images shown, each one harshly flicks to the next one. The fast flashes of images creates a disturbing viewing as some of the images are so fast the viewer can not make out what they are showing. The hidden images from the audience creates the idea of subliminal messaging, which in turn leaves the viewer immediately anxious from the hidden imagery and mystery created. In addition, the text itself is layered with effects, differing from white flashes and overlapping of text. The over lapping effect is followed through into the transition of shots also. Personally if I were to look in depth, as to why this effect is used, I feel that the fading could represent the slow deterioration of the ominous character's victims as they become hazy through the loss of blood. It is highly conventional of a thriller film to include a point of view shot from the victim as their vision becomes increasingly distorted and indistinguishable once they have been seriously injured. In turn I feel this imagery fits well with this over lapping and therefore forebodes the deaths to come for the audience. 
The use of sound with 




















































why credits important

se7en credit analysis

my credits
rishikas credits
jemimahs credits 

what we agreed on- rishikas

Rough Cut

Rough Cut

The creation of a rough cut is an important stage of developing and finalising our opening thriller sequence. Through this it allows our group to develop a variety of constructive criticism from a range of sources. Despite the unfinished quality of the clip we have created thus far, this rough cut will still greatly resemble our final piece, so the viewers can still provide their opinions and help us to grasp what improvements need to be made, whilst we have not yet finalised our thriller opening. Without proceeding to do a rough cut , myself and my group would not receive the crucial criticism needed to reach our full potential, meaning we would not be able to present a high quality of work, through our thriller sequence.

Audience feedback is extremely important to consider as it provides a variety of new perspective views myself and fellow group members would not of spotted, most likely due to our extensive exposure to our clip. This feedback will help define our main strength and weaknesses, allowing us to devote our time sufficiently upon the key areas of weakness. 

In order to collect our audience feedback we used two types methods, this allowed us to gather a variety of response from a range of ages. The two methods we used were, peer assessment within our media class, as well as asking family and friends to review our rough cut clip, published to youtube, and post an evaluative response in the comments. 

Firstly, our group proceeded to present  our rough cut to our peers within our class. We collected a variety of responses from individuals, introducing us to few new perspectives of our clip and more importantly how we can improve our sequence. When showing the rough cut clip to the class of student this was our groups first time we had watched it in its entirety so whilst watching I noticed a few weaknesses immediately, elements we would have noticed easily if we had watched it in full, before we had uploaded to youtube, i.e background commentary from members of our group during filming we had overlooked and not deleted. Once the audience of students had provided us with their insight into our sequence, our teacher presented her personal opinion of our thriller opening and summarised our strengths and weaknesses, making it clear what we had exceeded in and what we needed to improved next. Some of her opinions, in regards to our strengths included the high quality of acting and its ability to sustain a conventional low key lighting. The weaknesses of ours in her opinion are the lack of attention to detail (i.e unintentional background noise) and transitions between frames. Another benefit of this style of peer assessment for me was not only hearing a plethora of comments and suggestions, but also for me the analysis of other class members work allowed me to view a different narrative from mine, but still gather ideas that can be applied to my thriller opening that would help to improve it. 

Secondly, we then asked is friends and family would view our thriller opening and provide us with constructive feedback. We then received three responses in the form of youtube comments;

Summary-

 Strengths

Through both peer assessing and the comments posted to our published rough cut clip I have gathered that generally the main strengths of our opening thriller clip were the following;

• Prevalent use of well presented low key lighting- a nighttime theme is captured throughout our clip and is therefore predominantly dark. This constant ill lighting emphasises the eerie atmosphere we aimed to achieve, a quality highly conventional of the thriller genre.

• excellent use of music accentuates the sustained tension and ambiguity- the specifically commended section of our sequence was the beginning. This was due to our good use of eerie parallel and contrasting sounds and music. For example, the sounds of children laughing were paired with tension building, cinematic music A juxtaposition of sounds that our audience agreed were presented with excellent conviction, especially in regards to the scene of the child on the swing it is played behind. 

• Well conveyed variety of camera shots- our audience concluded that our use of varied camera angles, whether that be high angles, low angles or handheld shots. Our feedback informed our group that the compilation of diverse camera angles created an interesting clip for the viewer, as their eyes are averted to numerous elements of the action, with distant shots providing a sense of location and close up shots creating an uncomfortable invasion of the viewers personal space.
• Great acting- many of our audience commented upon the high standard of acting we captured. A high standard of acting is crucial in order to easily convey a believable narrative, capturing an audience.

Weaknesses 

• Unintentional background dialogue- Within the our clip, whilst the protagonist is captured running away from the antagonist, featured background dialogue was noticed by our audience. Because we had not yet watched our clip in entirety we had not spotted this error before we had published the clip on youtube. 
• The opening of the antagonist's eyes as he awakes from his flashback was not clear enough- the opening of the antagonist's eyes was intended to create a great impact, paired with a loud sound effect. However due to our actors fair colouring and the low key lighting our audience have agreed that the impact was not as effective as it could of been. Also the clip itself was a little delayed when paired with the sound effect, in turn meaning a vast sense of tension was not created.
• Too many effects used on the credits- one of the comments posted onto our video and mentioned during our peer assessing was that our credits to complex in the sense that a vast quantity of effects were used over the original text. This not only made it hard for the audience to read the credits, but the fleeting, scatty nature of the text was very distracting, whilst the viewer was trying to analyse the action on screen.

In conclusion, myself and my group have found the process of creating a rough cut of our opening thriller clip and presenting it to an audience, extremely helpful. This is because we have gathered a variety of helpful feed back that we can then use to improve the quality of our clip. The next steps to improving our thriller film are as follows; firstly, we must delete the background noise of people conversing whilst we were filming. This is very easily done by muting all sound within the clip and simply playing dramatic, cinematic music over the top of the clip using the program of final cut xpro. The music paired with these particular frames must create a vastly suspenseful atmosphere, as the victim is chased by the antagonist and the audience is made to feel sympathetic for the character. The next weakness of ours is the waking up of the antagonist, specifically as his eyes open. To improve this were have talked about me applying a light coat of mascara on his eye lashes to make his eyes bolder. Finally, we have also discussed the over use of effects used for the credits and have agreed to limit these. In particular we have made sure there is no credit used whilst we have the 'street cam' filter over our frames at the bus stop. As well as this, we have made sure that we have reduced the amount the credits shake; the shaking effect on the credits makes the text very unclear and distracting, therefore we have only used this particular effect for one or two names, creating a variation but not over using it. 
At our next group meeting we shall raise these issues brought to our attention by our feedback from an audience and discuss a way to improve these weaknesses in way we can all agree is most effective. We have already briefly discussed the constructive criticism we had receive and are extremely happy to receive a variety of fresh view points that we had not originally seen, thus helping us easily improve our over all thriller clip and subsequent grade attached to this. 

                                                 'Humanity Off- Rough Cut'

Opening Sequence Analysis

Opening Sequence Analysis 

The purpose of an opening sequence is to entice the audience, gripping them with suspense, surprise and shock. An opening provides an initial insight into the characters and plot, leaving the viewer with a desire to watch more, in order to uncover all of the secrets, hidden in the narrative. The opening scene from 'Halloween' is a brilliant portrayal of a simplistic yet effective opening, convectional of a typical thriller film. Therefore making it perfect for my analysis..  http://youtu.be/ELF1DCf1ChA

Cinematography

Camera angles and shots are crucial as they provide the image the audience views on screen

Group Planning

Group Planning

Firstly, my group is made up of three members; myself, Jemimah and Rishika. Within our lesson time we have partaken in many discussions and meetings, based around the planning and production of our thriller film. These meetings are crucial in terms of exploring each members ideas and discussing the strengths and weaknesses, until we come to a unanimous decision. The process of analytically reviewing each element of the film with my group members allowed me to explore many thoughts and ideas I had not considered initially. 

The first of our group meetings took place on the 17th October and the main topic of discussion was, creating a narrative for our future thriller film. Within the group we presented individually, our narrative and looked at each one, picking out the positive and more negative responses the narrative provides. Although we could have used our first meeting to create a narrative as a group, not focusing on our individual ideas, this would not be as effective as our approach. By coming to our meeting, with an idea of our own, this meant that each group member displayed an even amount of participation, towards the initial stages of creating our thriller sequence, not simply rewording an idea someone in the group has thought long and hard about. Once we had out weighed each pro and con of each idea we concluded that we would follow Jemimah's narrative. Our reason behind this decision was that it followed a variety of highly conventionally features of a thriller film and therefore made it very easy to work with, as we could easily apply the different elements, such as cinematography, lighting, sound etc, to other famous thriller films. In turn, this would provide us with a vast quantity of inspiration, we could then later apply to our film. 

mise-en-scene planning 

The next topic of discussion was, mise-en-scene. As displayed in the image on the left, on the 4th November, we created a visual resource, an elaboration of each element within mise-en-scene, in regards to our narrative specifically. I found it extremely helpful to present our ideas in a clear and divided manner such as this. It allowed me to not become over whelmed by the vast quality of sections associated with mise-en-scene, as I could clearly view them and easily remember them. Whilst discussing each element of mise-en-scene we discovered that in our first meeting we had spent our time focusing on the basic narrative and not considered the smaller details, that the narrative encapsulates. In particular, we had found that we had not considered costumes as of yet; we used this meeting to discuss all of our characters and what they would be featured wearing, in regards to their situation in the scene. 

Cinematography Planning

Friday 7th November was our third group meeting, and the subject matter of choice was cinematography . Within this meeting we discussed a vast amount of camera angles, distinguishing their individual effects on an audience, and then applying the most appropriate camera shots to our narrative. We decided upon six definite camera angle ans shots, displayed to in the images to the right. The reason we chose these six in particular was because they would not only provided a basic view of the setting and characters during the scenes, but also build tension within our target audience. The camera shot we unanimously agreed to be featured in our thriller was both, a point of view shot and a close up. These camera shots both share the ability to place the audience directly in the action and provide a somewhat uncomfortable amount of detail. As well as this, both shots can be applied to a variety of famous thriller films, because they are highly conventional of the genre. This in turn means we extend our knowledge and create a thriller film we can be proud of through the use of inspiration from other successful films.

Sound Planning

The subject of sound was introduced into our group meeting. Firstly, we outlined all the sound techniques we could think of and then narrowed it down to a total of four different types of sound to include, within our thriller. The image on the left presents the detailed insight into each type of sound and specifically what frame it is featured in. We made sure as group we were as detailed as possible because this meant that we would already have a basic plan when it came to filming. Thus meaning that the filming process would run, without many difficulties, as we were all clear on what we are including. For example, before we began discussing sound I was sure how an off screen sound could be included successfully. Through talking with my group members we agreed that it would be effective if the off screen sound would be, the scream of the first female victim. By adding the scream off screen it makes it easier for us when filming our thriller, as we will not have to include how the victim is killed. This allows the audience to create their own assumptions about the characters death, allowing them to participate in the scene, as they decide the story behind her death. As well as this, the use of an off screen sound helps to emphasize the prevalent theme of hidden identity and ambiguity. 

Editing Planning

Our next group meeting, 10th November was directly focused upon the editing process of our thriller film. In order to present a simplistic A4 representation of the editing styles, we were going to feature in our film, we decided to narrow it down to four editing styles, as seen in the image to the right. I feel the main objective we held onto, whilst exploring editing, was the slow pace of most scenes. This reduced tempo aids the tension created and makes a break in the tempo, extremely sudden and shocking. I personally find that editing is there area in which I am the least experienced or knowledgeable in. Talking within my group has helped bring lots of new ideas I had not originally though about and made me feel more confident about editing. The planning sheet displayed above can be used as a basic plan, when editing. In addition, we referred back to our individual editing posts/ research and used our examples of inspiration to help us figure out what editing styles would be the most convention and effective. We came to an immediate decision that a reaction shot is one of the most important angles in a thriller film. This lets the audience immerse themselves in the usually severely horrified state the characters are frozen in. 

Character Planning

The 12th November was a meeting based upon the characterisation of each of the characters featured in our thriller film. Previously, I had over looked the importance of analysing the characters in detail. Once discussing it within my group I realised there was many elements of their backstories I had not yet considered. For example, the age of the female characters, although it seemed obvious I had not given it a though until this meeting. Within our discussion we used our knowledge of the mise-en-scene presented in our thriller film, to apply this to the characters costume, i.e the low key lighting makes the image on screen not a clear, id the female characters are presented in clear bright colours, this would create a good contrast and allow the audience to easily depict them, in our night time setting. We then moved on from the female characters and onto our antagonist. Though extensive research into thriller films we had noticed one prevalent feature of most of these thriller films, the antagonist often is featured with their face hidden. With this in mind we used this typical convention and applied it to our antagonist. We agreed that this sustained theme of hidden identity would be highly effective, in order to create suspense and tension, as they desperately urge the antagonist to reveal their identity.

Once we had finalised our characterisation of all of the people featured in our thriller film, we went off and individually created our own storyboard, making sure to include all that we had planned to include so far. I feel it was crucial we branch off from the security of our group members and elaborate on our own ideas, helping us to see visually the different individual perceptions of our thriller film. When we had finished our individual responses to a story board we re-joined as a group and discussed each one in detail , picking out the most successful elements, that we would later include in our final group storyboard. Through this discussion we discovered that we had all different approaches to the first frames of our thriller film. Eventually we agreed that my opening few frames we the most effective. My opening frames presented an empty swing set becoming suddenly filled, with the young image of the antagonist we had agreed upon, sadly swinging to and fro.
Editing was our next topic of discussion, in particular our opening credits. Individually we went off and created our own opening credits. Once we had completed them we came back together as a group and, much like the individual storyboards, we chose the best one of our groups ideas. Personally I felt this was very important, as I am very inexperienced in editing, especially final pro x. I soon found that my group members had used a variety of techniques I was not aware of. Eventually we agreed that we would use Rishika's opening credits, as they were highly conventional and followed the low key theme (black and white). Our research and exploration of the opening credits of se7en aided the production of our opening credits. Predominantly we used the prevalent jagged angles and flickering displayed in the famous opening credits.


In conclusion, I believe the entire process of group planning helped me explore my knowledge of a variety of element evolved around the production of our thriller film. In particular I found it helpful to individually explore final cut pro x, whilst creating our opening thriller sequence, and then discuss all of my concerns and questions with the program with my group members. In addition the planning process helped us to make sure we had not missed any minor elements and make our thriller film as conventional and age appropriate as possible.

Planning Group Storyboard- Miss Miller

Planning Group Storyboard

The purpose of the group story board is to bring together all of our ideas and combine them into one finalised product. This means we can work straight from this storyboard and use it when filming as a basic structure or plan. In turn, this will reduce the time spent filming as we have a shot by shot plan, allowing us to spend more time editing, the most time consuming aspect to creating a film. My group and myself have all sat down and spent time analysing each group members individual story boards, picking all of the best elements and joining them together to create a final plan we could all agree upon. We did this through discussion but also reviewing each of our in depth individual storyboard plans.

Frames 1-4

In the image displayed on the left this presents frames 1-4. We agreed that the thriller film would begin with inspiration from my individual story, this regards to the use of the swing set and incorporation of the young boy. This idea of a flash back to begin our thriller was inspired by the film 'Halloween', and how the thriller presents an over view of a young child's life. We agreed that the swing successfully presented our first main theme of childhood. A clear juxtaposition would also be created with the connotations of frivolity and happiness present by the swing and the extremely saddened body language the young boy is displaying. Although the this opening was taken from my individual story board, the group agreed joining Jemimah's cinematography ideas shown in her story board, would make the scene more effective. Jemimah's idea was to simply film the flash back frames in a sustained mid shot. This applies well to my swing scene as it make it easy for us to edit each frame in a variety of speeds and lengths, which I had initially intended to capture. The aim for these four frames is solely represent the antagonist's life, within the past and present in a matter of seconds.  From 1-4 the duration of the antagonist's adolescent park scene uses a great screen time than the antagonist with in the present day. This displays connotations of how the antagonist as a child, was forced to suddenly mature over night- the night time setting of the closeup present shot emphasizes this idea. These four frames are highly conventional as the imagery of childhood is paired with joyous sound effects and child voices in the background of the scene. Children are a prevalent feature of thriller films, this is because they are vulnerable, and therefore easily manipulable. In turn, this provides a highly ambiguous scene as the audience is film introduced into the narrative. 




Frames 5-8

The image to the right presents frames 5-8, and takes through the journey the female protagonists embark on, as they travel back from a night out. This group story board differs from my individual story board as these frames in which the female characters begin walking from the bus stop, are featured within the first 4 of my frames. I have learnt that when drawing out a story board I must be extremely detailed, presenting every frame. In my individual story board, I did not include all of the swing frames as I intended to feature in our opening thriller film, simply summarised the swing movement in particular. When talking and analysing each group member's story board I realised that mine was not as detailed as it could be, we therefore used sections from Rishika and Jemimah's story board, to present the female characters beginning their journey home. These four frames do not feature any close ups or shots that provide a great amount of detail, especially the character's facial expressions. We agreed that the lack of detail provided, especially in terms of facial expression, through the use of a two shot, high angle and long shot, would increase the tension building. This is because the audience can not easily read the characters and analyse what they are feeling, whether that is tense, nervous or vulnerable. The prevalent theme of ambiguity is highly conventional of the thriller genre, the sense of unknown is used to keep the audience in suspense and subsequently shocked, when they discover what was previously hidden. These frames, displaying the female character's journey, were very easy to agree upon as we all had extremely similar elements to our individual storyboard. For example, we had all included a panning shot in our story boards; we agreed that a panning shot was a perfect way to display the characters walking, whilst included a vast amount of setting, to inform the audience of their location. As well as this, the camera follows the characters mirroring the what it would look like if the audience where there in the scene following them. This draws the audience into the scene, building a closer relationship with the female characters, as they are place in the action.

Frames 9-12

Frames 9-12 display the sudden noticing of the antagonist by one of the female protagonist, as the other character is distracted on her phone. We agreed  to incorporate elements of each group members frames as they were very similar, in terms of predominate focus upon the first female victim. We agreed that the there would be more frames filming the female victim that notices the body, as this creates a stronger bond between the audience with this character, making the audience more shocked when she is suddenly killed soon after. In contrast with the previous four frames (5-8) these frames display a use of close ups, as they are used to present the extreme detail of the protagonist eyes. We agreed that the aim of this close up in particular, was to make the audience feel uncomfortable and claustrophobic, as the image is up close and personal, and they are left staring directly into the eyes of the supposed killer. These frames of our group story board are highly conventional of a thriller film, this is because the build tension, through the use of music, but also include off screen sound effects, paired with the action on screen. The off screen sound effect used is a scream and as the audience cannot identify or located specifically the sound, the audience are left questioning. In turn, this emphasise the prevalent theme of hidden identity and ambiguity. Talking within our group I developed a better understanding of this particular scene and found that Jemimah's point of view shot, used when walking up to the protagonist was a perfectly fitting. The point of view shot outs the viewer in the female victims position and builds tension, as the audience question what is going to happen to themselves next, as they are left feeling like they are in the action.

Frames 13-16

Frames 13-16 display the struggle for attention the female victim is subject to, as her best friend is distracted, talking on her phone. When talking amongst the group I discovered that, our views of the female death scene, followed swiftly by the desperate running of the remaining female character, were very different. Within my individual narrative I had elongated the moments the remaining female character sits with the dead body of her best friend. With allows the audience to capture the emotional trauma, through the female characters facial expressions. This idea is presented within frames 13-14, although I feel if we were drawing this out again we could have made our finalized ideas more clear. Within this frames in particular, I explored with the group my concerns about the nighttime setting of our scene. I discussed that the darkness may prove an issue; although we want to film in the dark, we also have to be able to see the protagonist's facial expressions. I suggested the scenario of the character fumbling for her phone torch, as she takes a short cut into the ill lit Forrest. This scenario provides the illumination needed of the character's facial expressions, whilst remaining believable. This highly unnatural style of lighting creates a juxtaposition between the realism of our point of view shot, displaying the characters feet as she runs from her friends murderer. I feel the point of view shot paired with the lighting is highly conventional of a thriller film, as is places the audience in the characters position, enhancing the tension, as they anticipate what will happen to themselves next. As well as this, this pairing of lighting and close intensity of the camera angle is inspired by the famously thrilling, 'The Blair Witch Project'. The overall aim of these frames is, to put the audience through emotion turmoil as the scene swiftly changed from, the discovery of her best friend's dead body, to the remaining female character's chase scene and desperate flee from the scene. In addition, the running of the female character both, builds a dramatic sense of tension, whilst holding a sustained conventional theme. This conventionality is conveyed through the general idea of a victim and antagonist pursuit, and the various minor elements of the scene, such as the low key lighting and uncomfortable closeups.

Frames 17-18

The final two frames, 17-18 end our thriller opening. The two frames depict the female characters final desperate attempts to escape from the antagonist, falling in her sheer panic. A victim or female character falling, in the attempt to escape from a supposed killer, is highly conventional of this genre. This is because the character is perceived as extremely vulnerable and too terrified to comprehend their surroundings, through a clear mind.  Therefore, the audience are extremely tense and sympathetic for the female victim. This idea works well with our thriller because, although a chase scene would build a lot of tension, the fall helps to intensify this, producing an extremely dramatic atmosphere to end on. We decided upon the last frame very easily as we had all discussed this prior to our group story board and included it within our individual story boards. Our reasons for the point of view shot were that, the audience would be placed in the antagonist's position and taken from their comfort zone they had adapted to e.g the life and characteristics of the female victim, and forced to into the mind of a supposed killer. The viewer is left staring at their victim and watching the terror inflicted upon them. In turn this provokes a variety of emotions from the audience, whether that be sympathy, suspense, tension etc, leaving them wanting to watch more so they can simplify their emotions and create a clear perception of what will happen to the female victim. Whilst the prevalent low key lighting is present our thriller will end with the scream of the female victim. This use of parallel sound enhances the realism of our film and creates a memorable sound that lingers with the audience. The over all aim of frames 17-18 are to end our thriller in a dramatic and emotive manner, ensuring the an extremely tense atmosphere for the audience and suspense so that the viewer wants to continue watching, in order to find out what happens next. 

In conclusion, through creating a group story board, this has allowed us to further familiarise ourselves with our narrative, it has also provided us with the opportunity to talk through our ideas toward the film and make sure we have not overlooked any minor details. I personally feel that we have achieved an evenly balanced story board. By evenly balanced I mean the amount of ideas and frames taken from each of our group member's individual story board's. Subsequently, this means that we have a variety of ideas incorporated into our thriller, many of which I had not considered before speaking to my group members. 

Production Roles- Miss Miller

Production Roles- Miss Miller

When making a film, allocating specified roles within the group is essential to create structure and the general process increasingly smooth running and organised. As well as this, as each member will be issued a role this allows equal involvement from each group member. In addition, the issuing of roles allows each aspect of production to be evenly focused upon and makes the task seem less daunting, as each person one had to specify in one sector of the production process.

The main roles needed for the creation of a film are;

• Actors- The actors are crucial to the narrative meaning the film needs to include them to work as a film.

• Directors-This role regards to complete creative management of the the film piece, ensuring that the narrative and story board is visually brought to life, whilst working hard to include all artistic views and aspects, knowing when to improvise something new into a scene if it not running smoothly.

• Director of Photography- This role refers to the control of how each frame is lit and staged 

• Editor- An editor works with the final shots captured and helps to join them in a conventionally effective manner, cutting, trimming and transforming frames collected and making eventually creating a film.

• Mise-en-scene Coordinator-to prepare and plan all elements, such as, lighting, iconography, costume, makeup etc. 

• Music Producer- to plan and create music that would work effectively in each scene of the the film, with the main aim to make the music conventional and emotive for an audience, working hand in hand with the action on screen.

• Producer- Their role is to manage the over all film production, preparing and supervising the film before it is worthy of an audience.

• Screenplay Writer- This is the role of writing the script for filming and the general detailed, structural plan used and referred back to by all members, during the filming process.

Due to my entire film production being completed as a group, we decided that is would be more efficient to issue each member of our group with a role. This allows us to individually analyse one or two elements of the filming process, thus providing a concentrated and detailed response to each section of our thriller film production. As well as this, creating a film from scratch can be a very daunting task, by giving each member a section of their own to work upon ensures that all members are confident in what they have to do, creating a relaxed working environment and lack of tension within the group.

My role within the group is mise-en-scene coordinator and music producer. My knowledge of special effects makeup meant that it was easy for me to look into makeup and the iconography element of MES, and make decisions i.e that blood capsules would provide an effective, as well as, realistic quality to our film. In addition, I have completed many music grades, all of which that involve the listening and analyzing of a piece of music. This experience of analysis has provided me with a good understanding of what music is typical of what genre, and also, what subtle music qualities help to emphasize particular themes within our thriller, for example, a clear division of bass notes and soprano shrills present the two opposing sides of the antagonist and protagonist. 

We as a group felt it was easy to place the role of screen writer and director upon Jemimah. This is because we are mostly using her narrative for our thriller film, meaning she has an clear knowledge of what the main aims of the narrative are, and how we can visually present them through her mental image and expectations of the films. Her roles within the group meant she had to provide us with a clear direction when filming. This in turn provided effective, as she could decoratively state what, when and where during filming. Myself and my other group member Rishika, could simply follow this and offer our personal opinion, if we felt her direction was not quiet concentrated or conventional enough to our thriller film. Also, Jemimah is a highly experienced drama student, and has therefore had a lot of experience in directing, with the sole purpose of entertaining an audience. As well as this the improvisation of a scene, when it does not prove as effective as it once seemed, is something she will have come across often within drama, meaning she can easily think on her feet and provide a quick alternative, essential during our first filming session. 

Rishika took upon the responsibilities of editor and director of photography. The reason behind this choice of role was because, during filming for our preliminary task, Rishika was behind the camera filming and creating a variety of shots. In turn, this meant she had to focus upon how each frame was lit and the situated within the scene. Due to Rishika's current subject of art, this has provided her with the artistic experience to explore the visual direction of our thriller film, creatively analyzing the small details. Her artistic qualities also make her a great editor as her experience allows her to look into the individual frames collected and analyse the small details that make up a great thriller film. Furthermore, we as a group decided to use Rishika's opening credits, in particular for its clear thriller conventions and swift transitions, created on final cut pro x. The editing of our thriller film will also be done through this program, meaning she has a great grasp of how to use it effectively for our thriller film. 

Personally, I feel happy with the decisions made towards roles, and feel we all thrived within the jobs we had been individually set. Our variety of qualities in our group made it very easy to pick the roles and later apply ourselves. I don't feel as though I would changed anything in terms of the roles agreed, this is because the filming process flowed smoothly and effortlessly, with only minor issues. However, I also feel as though it would have been a good opportunity to expand my knowledge of editing, through an editor role, as I also have artistic experience and still not a solid grasp of all that final cut pro, the editing software, therefore this would allow me to become more familiar with the program, as well as, presenting my ability to look at the fine details. Although this would have been a good opportunity, I stand by the fact that the roles were correctly issued, as each individual was given a role suited around their strongest abilities. Thus meaning we could provide our best interpretation of a thriller film.

Filming Schedule- Miss Geourgiou

Filming Schedule 

Myself and my group collectively created a filming schedule to abide by during our filming process, providing us with a shot by shot direction of where we should be and the time in which we should be in the allocated places. As suspected, we did not strictly follow this filming schedule, the first issue we faced that caused us to divert briefly away from our initial plan was based around the young actor of our flash back scene. We had decided upon filming the flash back with the child actor during Wednesday 3rd of December, however we had over looked that the child would still be in school, so we were forced to prospone the filming of our flash back scene to, Saturday 6th of December around 3:00, a day in which the child was not in school hours. The reasons we could not film once the child had returned home from school is that, due to it being winter the sun beings to set much sooner (3:30-4:00), meaning we would miss out on the period of time in which it was bright enough to present a day time like appearance within our flash back. Within our day of filming the flash back, we also filmed all of the frames up to frame 9, leaving those to be filmed another day when both our group and our actors could be together, to finish our thriller film. 

On Tuesday 9th of December we filmed shots 9-19. The reasons behind our delay was that the camera had run out of charge, therefore we had to allow it time to full recharge once more. As well as this, it was the only day we could find that all of my group and our cast could be all together during filming. Tuesday's day of filming evolved around capturing the main protagonist's desperate run through the forest , as she attempts to get away from the antagonist pursuing her . As well as this,  her terrified reaction, when she realizes that she has not lost him and that shes in serious danger.  
In conclusion, although we were faced with a few minor difficulties, causing us to not follow the schedule as much as we had initially planned, this allowed us to create new adaptations of our plan. In addition, it also allowed us to build upon our communication skills in our group and work together to easily amend this minor problems we faced, whilst filming.